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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Nashville, TN

March 10, 2000Cumberland County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 10, 2000, 3:36 PM CST for Cumberland County, Tennessee. It was in force for 114 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 10, 2000, 3:36 PM CST (21:36 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 114 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Cumberland County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 145 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1293 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 373 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 406 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KOHX 102141 COR
FFWOHX
TNC035-102330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED FOR PRODUCT TYPE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
336 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CROSSVILLE

* UNTIL 530 PM CST

* AT 330 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE
  COUNTY...WITH ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE COUNTY FROM
  THE SOUTHWEST.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE FAIRFIELD GLADE

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.

RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER8S OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
NASHVILLE.
$$
STEIGERWALDT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 12:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	47 min
Mar 10, 1:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis, Marshall, Maury	45 min
Mar 10, 1:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Rutherford	45 min
Mar 10, 1:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	45 min
Mar 10, 1:32 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence	118 min
Mar 10, 1:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford	47 min
Mar 10, 1:47 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Rutherford	118 min
Mar 10, 2:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	62 min
Mar 10, 2:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	47 min
Mar 10, 2:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee	58 min
Mar 10, 2:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	58 min
Mar 10, 2:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	41 min
Mar 10, 3:27 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	2 hr
Mar 10, 3:43 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence	2 hr
Mar 10, 4:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	63 min
Mar 10, 5:02 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Wayne	3 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.